Feature will open theatrically at New York’s Film Forum on December 8.
Film Movement has acquired all North American rights to Total Trust, Zhang Jialing’s Cph-dox, Hot Docs and Sheffield selection about the Chinese surveillance state.
Total Trust’: Cph:dox Review
The distributor has set a December 8 theatrical release at New York’s Film Forum followed by home entertainment and digital platforms after president Michael Rosenberg negotiated the deal with Cinephil MD Olivier Tournaud.
Total Trust follows three women fighting for civil liberties and social justice in a country which uses high tech security and surveillance technology to monitor...
Film Movement has acquired all North American rights to Total Trust, Zhang Jialing’s Cph-dox, Hot Docs and Sheffield selection about the Chinese surveillance state.
Total Trust’: Cph:dox Review
The distributor has set a December 8 theatrical release at New York’s Film Forum followed by home entertainment and digital platforms after president Michael Rosenberg negotiated the deal with Cinephil MD Olivier Tournaud.
Total Trust follows three women fighting for civil liberties and social justice in a country which uses high tech security and surveillance technology to monitor...
- 10/20/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Feature will open theatrically at New York’s Film Forum on December 8.
Film Movement has acquired all North American rights to Total Trust, Zhang Jialing’s Cph:dox, Hot Docs and Sheffield selection about the Chinese surveillance state.
Total Trust’: Cph:dox Review
The distributor has set a December 8 theatrical release at New York’s Film Forum followed by home entertainment and digital platforms. Film Movement president Michael Rosenberg and Cinephil MD Olivier Tournaud announced the deal on Friday.
Total Trust follows three women fighting for civil liberties and social justice in a country which uses high tech security and surveillance...
Film Movement has acquired all North American rights to Total Trust, Zhang Jialing’s Cph:dox, Hot Docs and Sheffield selection about the Chinese surveillance state.
Total Trust’: Cph:dox Review
The distributor has set a December 8 theatrical release at New York’s Film Forum followed by home entertainment and digital platforms. Film Movement president Michael Rosenberg and Cinephil MD Olivier Tournaud announced the deal on Friday.
Total Trust follows three women fighting for civil liberties and social justice in a country which uses high tech security and surveillance...
- 10/20/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Cinephil has come aboard to represent worldwide sales rights to Polish director Maciek Hamela’s In The Rearview, which will make its debut in the Cannes Film Festival next week as part of the Acid (Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema) program.
The project is a collective portrait composed of an array of experienes of Ukrainians who share a single goal: finding a safe haven in the throes of conflict. It follows multiple generations of Ukrainian civilians as they abandon their homes and rely on the help of Hamela’s volunteer aid van to escape the life-threatening conflict. As he steers through minefields to leave Ukraine and tries to get through numerous military checkpoints, Hamela guides the documentary from behind the wheel and behind the camera, crisscrossing the roads of Ukraine to transport uprooted refugees safely to Poland.
In the Rearview is a Polish production, with co-producers from France and Ukraine.
The project is a collective portrait composed of an array of experienes of Ukrainians who share a single goal: finding a safe haven in the throes of conflict. It follows multiple generations of Ukrainian civilians as they abandon their homes and rely on the help of Hamela’s volunteer aid van to escape the life-threatening conflict. As he steers through minefields to leave Ukraine and tries to get through numerous military checkpoints, Hamela guides the documentary from behind the wheel and behind the camera, crisscrossing the roads of Ukraine to transport uprooted refugees safely to Poland.
In the Rearview is a Polish production, with co-producers from France and Ukraine.
- 5/12/2023
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
Cinephil has sold Valerie Kontakos’ documentary “Queen of the Deuce,” which charts the rise of Chelly Wilson, the queen of the porn industry in 1970s New York, to several key territories. The film premiered at Doc NYC and is now playing in the International Competition at the Thessaloniki Intl. Documentary Festival.
Greece’s Ert, Canada’s Doc Channel, Switzerland’s Radio Télévision Suisse and Israel’s Channel 8 came on board at the funding stage. It has now been acquired by Spanish streamer FilmIn, Swedish broadcaster Ur, and U.S. theatrical distributor Greenwich Entertainment.
The film follows Wilson from pre-World War II Greece to New York, where she rose to become a major figure on the porn circuit in Times Square from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s. She is shown to be a trailblazing, taboo-breaking entrepreneur and an unconventional matriarch. It is presented as an empowering story of survival,...
Greece’s Ert, Canada’s Doc Channel, Switzerland’s Radio Télévision Suisse and Israel’s Channel 8 came on board at the funding stage. It has now been acquired by Spanish streamer FilmIn, Swedish broadcaster Ur, and U.S. theatrical distributor Greenwich Entertainment.
The film follows Wilson from pre-World War II Greece to New York, where she rose to become a major figure on the porn circuit in Times Square from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s. She is shown to be a trailblazing, taboo-breaking entrepreneur and an unconventional matriarch. It is presented as an empowering story of survival,...
- 3/11/2023
- by Tara Karajica
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Giant Pictures today announced it has acquired U.S. theatrical and VOD rights to the Oscar-nominated documentary feature A House Made of Splinters, a film that until very recently lacked any American distribution.
Giant plans to release Simon Lereng Wilmont’s film, which focuses on children living in a Ukrainian shelter, on digital platforms on February 21, including Apple TV and Prime Video. It will be released on the big screen at select Alamo Drafthouse theaters beginning in March. In a separate announcement last month, the PBS documentary series Pov picked up broadcast rights for the film, with plans to premiere it over the summer as part of the program’s 36th season.
Wilmont (The Distant Barking of Dogs) shot A House Made of Splinters in Eastern Ukraine before Russia’s full-scale invasion a year ago. The region for years had been roiled by a Russian-backed separatist movement, placing enormous stress on Ukrainian civilians,...
Giant plans to release Simon Lereng Wilmont’s film, which focuses on children living in a Ukrainian shelter, on digital platforms on February 21, including Apple TV and Prime Video. It will be released on the big screen at select Alamo Drafthouse theaters beginning in March. In a separate announcement last month, the PBS documentary series Pov picked up broadcast rights for the film, with plans to premiere it over the summer as part of the program’s 36th season.
Wilmont (The Distant Barking of Dogs) shot A House Made of Splinters in Eastern Ukraine before Russia’s full-scale invasion a year ago. The region for years had been roiled by a Russian-backed separatist movement, placing enormous stress on Ukrainian civilians,...
- 2/14/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
“Becoming an Astronaut,” an ambitious documentary that will focus on four new astronauts who will be announced by the European Space Agency (Esa) this November, has won the Focal Audience & Market Strategies pitching event at the Zurich Film Festival.
Organized by Focal, the Lausanne-based foundation for film and audiovisual media training, Audience & Market Strategies is a three-part training program that helps producers promote their projects at an early stage. This year’s event showcased eight Swiss projects in various states of development.
The program culminated with the pitching event, in which the producers presented their projects to sales company representatives, industry experts and an international jury comprising Stephen Kelliher of Bankside Films, Netflix’s Lars Wiebe, Olivier Tournaud of Cinephil, Sven Wälti, head of film at Swiss pubcaster Srg Ssr, and Deadline’s Diana Lodderhose.
Produced by Franziska Sonder of Ensemble Film and set to be directed by Roman Hodel,...
Organized by Focal, the Lausanne-based foundation for film and audiovisual media training, Audience & Market Strategies is a three-part training program that helps producers promote their projects at an early stage. This year’s event showcased eight Swiss projects in various states of development.
The program culminated with the pitching event, in which the producers presented their projects to sales company representatives, industry experts and an international jury comprising Stephen Kelliher of Bankside Films, Netflix’s Lars Wiebe, Olivier Tournaud of Cinephil, Sven Wälti, head of film at Swiss pubcaster Srg Ssr, and Deadline’s Diana Lodderhose.
Produced by Franziska Sonder of Ensemble Film and set to be directed by Roman Hodel,...
- 9/24/2022
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Tel Aviv-based sales company Cinephil has acquired worldwide sales rights for documentary feature “A Story of Bones,” which is in competition at the ongoing Tribeca Festival.
Directed by Joseph Curran and Dominic Aubrey de Vere and produced by Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo, the documentary follows Annina Van Neel, who, as the chief environmental officer for Saint Helena’s troubled 360 million airport project, learned of the island’s most terrible atrocity – an unmarked mass burial ground of an estimated 9,000 formerly enslaved Africans in Rupert’s Valley, one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade still on earth.
Haunted by this historical injustice, Van Neel now fights alongside renowned African American preservationist Peggy King Jorde and a group of disenfranchised islanders – many of them descendants of the formerly enslaved – for the proper memorialization of these forgotten victims. The resistance they face exposes disturbing truths about the U.K.’s colonial past and present.
Directed by Joseph Curran and Dominic Aubrey de Vere and produced by Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo, the documentary follows Annina Van Neel, who, as the chief environmental officer for Saint Helena’s troubled 360 million airport project, learned of the island’s most terrible atrocity – an unmarked mass burial ground of an estimated 9,000 formerly enslaved Africans in Rupert’s Valley, one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade still on earth.
Haunted by this historical injustice, Van Neel now fights alongside renowned African American preservationist Peggy King Jorde and a group of disenfranchised islanders – many of them descendants of the formerly enslaved – for the proper memorialization of these forgotten victims. The resistance they face exposes disturbing truths about the U.K.’s colonial past and present.
- 6/13/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Tel-Aviv-based Cinephil, the sales company behind triple-Oscar nominated “Flee,” has snapped up world rights, excluding U.S., to Italian director Nicolò Bassetti’s transgender-themed doc “Into My Name,” which is executive-produced by Elliot Page.
UTA Independent Film Group will be handling North American rights.
The buzzy doc, which world-premieres at the Berlin Film Festival in the Panorama Documentary section, stems from Bassetti’s personal experience with the gender transition of his child, Matteo.
“Into My Name” provides an intimate look at the universal challenges of gender transition by observing a tight-knit group of trans friends in the central Italian city of Bologna.
Cinephil managing director Olivier Tournaud in a statement said that he was “immediately taken” by Bassetti’s “sensitive and relatable exploration of the many facets of gender and even more so the love letter from a father to his son.”
“Into My Name is timely and spotlights voices...
UTA Independent Film Group will be handling North American rights.
The buzzy doc, which world-premieres at the Berlin Film Festival in the Panorama Documentary section, stems from Bassetti’s personal experience with the gender transition of his child, Matteo.
“Into My Name” provides an intimate look at the universal challenges of gender transition by observing a tight-knit group of trans friends in the central Italian city of Bologna.
Cinephil managing director Olivier Tournaud in a statement said that he was “immediately taken” by Bassetti’s “sensitive and relatable exploration of the many facets of gender and even more so the love letter from a father to his son.”
“Into My Name is timely and spotlights voices...
- 2/11/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Tel Aviv-based sales outfit and advisory firm Cinephil is linking up with London’s WestEnd Films for a new joint venture that will see the companies unite on development, financing and sales.
The deal comes as Cinephil founder and managing director Philippa Kowarsky recently stepped down from the business — a leading sales firm whose credits include the Sundance-winning “Flee” and Oscar-nominated “Collective” — to take up one of the documentary industry’s most prestigious roles, as commissioning editor of BBC documentary strand Storyville.
Under the new pact, WestEnd and Cinephil will collaborate on upcoming projects and films. Maya Amsellem, the Tel Aviv-based co-founder and managing director of WestEnd Films, said “together with the knowledge and expertise of Cinephil, we can bring the best of documentary films and series to the screen. Philippa has built an impressive brand which we are honored to preserve and strengthen even further.”
Following Kowarsky’s departure,...
The deal comes as Cinephil founder and managing director Philippa Kowarsky recently stepped down from the business — a leading sales firm whose credits include the Sundance-winning “Flee” and Oscar-nominated “Collective” — to take up one of the documentary industry’s most prestigious roles, as commissioning editor of BBC documentary strand Storyville.
Under the new pact, WestEnd and Cinephil will collaborate on upcoming projects and films. Maya Amsellem, the Tel Aviv-based co-founder and managing director of WestEnd Films, said “together with the knowledge and expertise of Cinephil, we can bring the best of documentary films and series to the screen. Philippa has built an impressive brand which we are honored to preserve and strengthen even further.”
Following Kowarsky’s departure,...
- 8/16/2021
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Following the departure of Cinephil founder Philippa Kowarsky, who joined the BBC as Storyville Commissioning Editor last week, the Tel Aviv-based sales outfit is joining forces with fellow sales company WestEnd Films to form a joint venture.
The companies will collaborate on development, financing and sales of upcoming projects and films. Olivier Tournaud steps up from the role of Head of Sales at Cinephil to be Managing Director, while the company has hired Sundance programmer Harry Vaughn as its Head of Acquisitions and U.S. sales. Vaughn will split his time between the U.S. and France.
Elsewhere, Cinephil’s Shoshi Korman will add marketing to her current portfolio as Head of Festivals, while Noa Levy remains in charge of Business Affairs.
Maya Amsellem, co-founder and Managing Director of WestEnd films, commented on the move: “Westend has always represented carefully selected documentaries alongside its feature films slate. Together with the...
The companies will collaborate on development, financing and sales of upcoming projects and films. Olivier Tournaud steps up from the role of Head of Sales at Cinephil to be Managing Director, while the company has hired Sundance programmer Harry Vaughn as its Head of Acquisitions and U.S. sales. Vaughn will split his time between the U.S. and France.
Elsewhere, Cinephil’s Shoshi Korman will add marketing to her current portfolio as Head of Festivals, while Noa Levy remains in charge of Business Affairs.
Maya Amsellem, co-founder and Managing Director of WestEnd films, commented on the move: “Westend has always represented carefully selected documentaries alongside its feature films slate. Together with the...
- 8/16/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Cinephil founder and MD Philippa Kowarsky is leaving the company to join BBC Storyville.
Following the news that Cinephil founder and managing director Philippa Kowarsky has been named Commissioning Editor of BBC Storyville, the Tel Aviv-based, documentary-focused sales company is announcing a new joint venture as well as several staff changes.
Cinephil is forming a new joint venture with London-based sales company WestEnd Films, to collaborate on development, financing and sales of upcoming films.
In staff changes at Cinephil, Olivier Tournaud, the outfit’s former head of sales, has been promoted to managing director.
The Cinephil staff will also add...
Following the news that Cinephil founder and managing director Philippa Kowarsky has been named Commissioning Editor of BBC Storyville, the Tel Aviv-based, documentary-focused sales company is announcing a new joint venture as well as several staff changes.
Cinephil is forming a new joint venture with London-based sales company WestEnd Films, to collaborate on development, financing and sales of upcoming films.
In staff changes at Cinephil, Olivier Tournaud, the outfit’s former head of sales, has been promoted to managing director.
The Cinephil staff will also add...
- 8/16/2021
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
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